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Islamic Science, Language and Limits

To the article about Islam and science, I would like to add that Copernicus, like other great scholars of the era, knew Arabic because it was part of the lingua franca of the learned world of that time; it was not limited to Greek and Latin, but also included Arabic and Hebrew. Thus, it is clear to many of us who have studied this era from the Muslim and the Western point of view that, though al-Tusi and others have not been fully translated from Arabic, Western scholars and scientists read the works in Arabic.

Thus, there is a clear link between Copernicus and the Muslim astronomers; as was pointed out, the Muslim astronomers showed some of the problems in Ptlomey's theories.